Vintage
Bullet Mics For Harp Players

I have been saving
pictures of neat harp mics on and off for a few months. I though that it would
be nice to make a little picture gallery to help with mic identification or
just to enjoy.

Collecting the actual
mics is way out of my price range, but the pictures are free.

I will add to the
list as time goes by.

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in the drop down box to see a picture.

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American
Microphone
These mics are less common, but very much like the Shure, Astatic and
Turner mics of the time. They invented the Salt-Shaker style microphone
and feel very good in the hand for playing harp.

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mic to view

Astatic
Corporation
The classic JT-30 is the Harp Players mic of choice, but there was a model
30 that preceded it which was chrome and there is the T-3 which is the
finest looking of the harp mics.

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mic to view

Electro-Voice
Microphones
These were higher end recording microphones used in studios. Many are
Low Impedance which makes them howl with feedback, but it is easy to find
the higher impedance ones

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mic to view

Shure
Brothers
Shure was the higher quality competition to Astatic and produced largely
magnetic style mics, but also sold crystal mics (with Astatic elements).
Harp players like the Green Bullet model 520 (and the crystal version
- model 707) as well as the "Paul Butterfield Mic" - the model
540.

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mic to view

Shure
Brothers
Magnetic Elements
I found some pics of Shure Controlled Reluctance and Magnetic elements
and thought they might be interesting

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element to view

Turner
Microphones
Turner
made a numer of very cool mics with the classic Turner ridge which made
them look like a Roman Centurian's Helmet.

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mic to view

Miscellaneous
Microphones
There
are dozens of companies that made great mics over the years. Here a a
few of the cool ones